1368 COLEOPTEEA 



moderate frontal ridges, the middle one ends before it reaches the 

 large basal depression, the others are oblique. Elytra nearly twice 

 as long as broad, quite oviform, scutellar region depressed ; no 

 punctures are visible, but the crests or elevations are numerous and 

 irregular, four near the base are elongate, one near each shoulder, 

 and one bordering each side of the scutellar depression ; very few 

 minute black granules may be seen here and there ; the posterior 

 declivity is rather long, and not at all abrupt. 



It is most nearly allied to E. ferrugatus. 



Length (rost. excl.), 2-f ; breadth, 1J lines. 



Mangawhare, Northern Wairoa. My specimen was found by 

 Mr. G. C. Munro. 



OBS. No. 760 will be more correctly placed in Erymneus. 



Styphlotelus. 



Nov. gen. 



Rostrum shorter than thorax, arched, a little dilated anteriorly, 

 its apex truncate. Mandibles with a median tooth on the inside. 

 Palpi exposed, but not long. Scrobe foveiform, situated just before 

 the middle, with an indistinct squamose groove behind. Scape 

 flexuous, its extremity clavate ; it just reaches the back part of the 

 eye. Funiculus 7-articulate ; the two basal joints equally elongate, 

 third rather smaller than fourth, the next three almost equal, seventh 

 larger than sixth ; club short, ovate. Eyes quite free, widely distant 

 above, not prominent, oblique, oviform. Thorax without ocular 

 lobes, subquadrate, rather longer than the prosternum. Scutellum 

 absent. Elytra deeply emarginate and depressed at the scutellar 

 region, between this and the thorax there is a deep gap, the humeral 

 angles porrect ; they are nearly twice as long as they are broad, and 

 are abruptly declivous and narrowed behind. Femora notched near 

 the extremity. Tibia mucronate. Tarsi short, their soles densely 

 clothed ; third joint excavate above but not lobate. Prosternum in- 

 curved in front, coxae large and contiguous. Metasternum of moderate 

 length. Posterior coxa widely separated. Abdomen long, its two 

 basal segments connate, without the least trace of suture at the 

 middle, very large ; third and fourth extremely short, their sutures 

 straight and deep ; fifth bent upwards. The peduncle, rather short, 

 mentum about as long as broad. 



In Cuneopterus the tibiae are unarmed, and the rostrum is rather 

 slender and elongate, which is not the case in this genus. Pachy- 

 prypnus has prominent eyes. In Astyphlus the rostrum and scape 

 are longer. Phrynixus has more prominent eyes and tibial spurs. 



2392. S. foveatus, n.s. Body elongate, gradually and almost 

 uninterruptedly narrowed towards the front; opaque, black, an- 

 tennae and tarsi infuscate-red. 



Eostrum with two very indistinct frontal grooves, behind there is 

 a feeble median carina, and, on either side of it, a shorter curvate 

 one ; the sculpture, however, is concealed by squamae and setae. 



